Human activity has spread these lizards around the world — including to the U.S., where you can find tokay geckos in both Florida and Hawaii. Tokay geckos are arboreal creatures. This means that the ...
A lizard called Delcourt’s giant gecko has long been one of herpetology’s biggest mysteries — literally. Presumed extinct, the animal is by far the largest gecko known to have crawled the Earth, ...
The computer generated gecko in the Geico insurance advertisements is cute, but the real creatures are far more interesting. In the new Museum of Science exhibit “Geckos: Tails to Toepads,” visitors ...
Thousands of tokay geckos (Gekko gecko), native to South and Southeast Asia, are sold each year in Hong Kong’s traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) pharmacies. Recent studies have raised questions on ...
For many species threatened by the illegal wildlife trafficking, such as rhinos, elephants, tigers, and bears, debates persist as to whether a legal trade in their parts and products can reduce ...
The baby blue and orange-spotted tokay gecko—whose creaky calls of to-kay provided its onomatopoeic name—have always been ubiquitous throughout Southeast Asia, southern China and India. The ...